Auctions and bidding: A guide for computer scientists

S Parsons, JA Rodriguez-Aguilar, M Klein - ACM Computing Surveys …, 2011 - dl.acm.org
There is a veritable menagerie of auctions—single-dimensional, multi-dimensional, single-
sided, double-sided, first-price, second-price, English, Dutch, Japanese, sealed-bid—and …

Evolutionary mechanism design: a review

S Phelps, P McBurney, S Parsons - Autonomous agents and multi-agent …, 2010 - Springer
The advent of large-scale distributed systems poses unique engineering challenges. In
open systems such as the internet it is not possible to prescribe the behaviour of all of the …

Avatar self-embodiment enhances distance perception accuracy in non-photorealistic immersive virtual environments

L Phillips, B Ries, M Kaeding… - 2010 IEEE virtual reality …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Non-photorealistically rendered (NPR) immersive virtual environments (IVEs) can facilitate
conceptual design in architecture by enabling preliminary design sketches to be previewed …

Of models and tin men: a behavioural economics study of principal-agent problems in AI alignment using large-language models

S Phelps, R Ranson - arxiv preprint arxiv:2307.11137, 2023 - arxiv.org
AI Alignment is often presented as an interaction between a single designer and an artificial
agent in which the designer attempts to ensure the agent's behavior is consistent with its …

Convergence of trading strategies in continuous double auction markets with boundedly-rational networked traders

J Zhang, P McBurney, K Musial - Review of Quantitative Finance and …, 2018 - Springer
This paper considers the convergence of trading strategies among artificial traders
connected to one another in a social network and trading in a continuous double auction …

Market-based pricing in grids: On strategic manipulation and computational cost

J Stößer, D Neumann, C Weinhardt - European Journal of Operational …, 2010 - Elsevier
Grid technologies and the related concepts of utility computing and cloud computing enable
the dynamic sourcing of computer resources and services, thus allowing enterprises to cut …

[PDF][PDF] Overview of CAT: A market design competition

K Cai, E Gerding, P McBurney, J Niu… - … of Computer Science …, 2009 - csc.liv.ac.uk
This document presents detailed information on the Trading Agent Competition (TAC)
Mechanism Design Tournament, also known as the CAT Tournament or CAT Game, being …

SORMA–Business Cases for an Open Grid Market: Concept and Implementation

J Nimis, A Anandasivam, N Borissov, G Smith… - Grid Economics and …, 2008 - Springer
Economic mechanisms enhance technological solutions by setting the right incentives to
reveal information about demand and supply accurately. Market or pricing mechanisms are …

Analysis and synthesis: multi-agent systems in the social sciences

RE Marks - The Knowledge Engineering Review, 2012 - cambridge.org
Although they flow from a common source, the uses of multi-agent systems (or 'agent-based
computational systems'––ACE) vary between the social sciences and computer science …

A supply chain as a network of auctions

T Moyaux, P McBurney, M Wooldridge - Decision Support Systems, 2010 - Elsevier
We propose and study a model of supply chains as networks of auctions. Specifically, each
company in our model is represented according to the Supply Chain Council's SCOR model …